Increasingly dominant on the internet — particularly social media and the podcast sphere — the fan fiction left imagines an alternative universe where the Republican Party, with its embrace of Trump and his authoritarian tendencies, is not the main problem of American politics. Instead, in this view, the only hindrance to the enactment of just and beneficial public policy is lack of will within the Democratic Party.
Far worse than teenagers writing an extension of their favorite anime series or video game, the fan fiction left encourages its audience, which depending on the writer or podcast often rivals those of mainstream publications and programs, to act in accordance with its weird delusions. Hallucination is central to their magical world of make-believe. Enter that world, and you will learn the following
- Bernie Sanders would have won the 2016 and 2020 DNC primaries if not for intraparty rigging. He also would have easily won both presidential elections. The fact that in both races he earned millions of fewer votes than his respective opponents is insignificant to the fan fiction left, who have cultivated their own big lie.
- Even though powerful Republicans believe in the neo-Nazi "great replacement theory," voter suppression and racist gerrymandering are prevalent, and many states are passing legislative assaults on women's rights and LGBTQ rights, concerns about racism, sexism, and homophobia are only bourgeois "identity politics."
- Trump supporters, regardless of how hateful, irrational and violent they become, are merely misled members of the proletariat class...
(There's a bunch more boring stuff I don't care enough to copy all of it)
Observable reality is irrelevant to this faction of the left. The only thing that matters is that President Barack Obama and the Democrats did not codify Roe v. Wade as federal law when they controlled Congress from 2009 to 2011. But this argument ignores that Obama and Democrat lawmakers spent those two years pushing through a massive stimulus package in the middle of financial collapse and then passing the most consequential expansion of the welfare state since the 1960s, the Affordable Care Act, which enabled more than 20 million Americans to receive health care for the first time.
^This is not as impressive as the author thinks it is lol
Last month, the US Senate attempted to codify Roe. All but one Democrat -- West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin -- voted in favor. Every Republican voted against.
Of course, the women's rights crisis wouldn't exist if Hillary Clinton won the presidential election of 2016 and appointed three Supreme Court justices instead of Trump. But many prominent left wing leaders gleefully called for people not to vote for Clinton.
:hillary:
The fan fiction left is not without precedent. George Orwell, a socialist, (lmao) came to believe that the left of his era had no real desire in holding power and for them political thought was nothing more than a "masturbation fantasy in which the world of facts hardly matters." Ernst Thälmann, the leader of the Communist Party of Germany from 1925 to 1933, believed that the center left presented a greater danger than Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. Needless to say, that analysis didn't turn out so well.
:1984:
The Democrats certainly have flaws. They are rhetorically passive, disorganized and seem to base their strategy on how not to lose rather than how to win, which usually guarantees failure. The party is also worthy of harsh criticism for taking a bashful approach to punishing Trump and his allies for insurrection. Despite sizable weaknesses, they do have the advantage of not being racists, sexists, homophobes or hostile to the foundation of democracy. Residents of the real world should vote accordingly
:vote:
Trump supporters, regardless of how hateful, irrational and violent they become, are merely misled members of the proletariat class…
Maybe things have changed, but this was the mainstream line from libs for the entire Trump presidency and the only people pushing against it were lefties pointing out that every trump voter owned a pool supply company or inherited a car dealership and that the overwhelming majority of the actual proletariat don't vote.
i mean so much of the op is just total falsehood but people in america do not understand the relation of class to property ownership at all. I remember people jerking off about the working class people during jan 6 and then it turned out every single one was some form of landlord.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false" - William J. Casey
While it’s tempting to pigeonhole Bleaksville residents based on small-town stereotypes, the reality is inevitably more complicated. I learned that lesson near the “supplies for visiting journalists” aisle at the local Walmart . . .
https://www.theawl.com/2016/11/i-talked-to-some-trump-voters-too/
Fair nuff. What I should have said was "the majority of those who don't vote are the proletariat".
which depending on the writer or podcast often rivals those of mainstream publications and programs
LMAO :cope:
Isn't Chapo's listenership absolutely minuscule compared to any notable chud with a mic
CNN's viewership is dying off.
The ghouls running CNN look at leftist media with good youth/middle-aged viewership and shit their pants.
Harder and harder to sell their rah-rah capitalist narrative to middle-aged millenials who have seen their savings wiped out two or three times.
Also harder to sell nostalgia/"things are fine" to younger millenials/older Gen Z'ers who are growing up in the bleak hellscape that we have been in for some time now
CNN's goons are also well aware that the young people are hitting a lot of leftist media before they hit liberal media. And once they're pre-primed with leftist education and age up into CNN's traditional audience age range they still don't like what CNN are saying.
Ernst Thälmann, the leader of the Communist Party of Germany from 1925 to 1933, believed that the center left presented a greater danger than Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. Needless to say, that analysis didn’t turn out so well.
Uhhhh. The centre-left had just assassinated Rosa in 1919 to prevent the communist revolution you fucking idiot. Of course communists felt they were a huge fucking threat when they were literally participating in assassinations to stop communists from succeeding. Most people believe that the communists would have succeeded had it not been for the centre-left opposition.
While he was leader he made several overtures to the SPD. The SPD responded by shooting protesting workers dead in the street.
I can’t imagine cnn publishing the phrase “proletariat” and “bourgeoisie” even in a negative context four years ago. Interesting.
This was my takeaway, too.
Edit: Actually, I'll expand on this. Prior to the time millenials came of age, there was a unified national narrative and anyone who made noise was just some internet crackpot. Then millenials grew up and it turned out the internet wasn't just some fad, and suddenly all of these crackpots had platforms - some of them with millions of listeners. To me, the fact that they are attempting to slander us with our own crackpot language signals that they've realized they are losing control of the narrative. That's why I think it's interesting.
Porky is scared, they know they are losing control of the masses and they are panicking because whichever anti-liberal faction gains traction - be they communists or fascists - it will upset their precious status quo and thus disrupt the profits of their billionaire overlords. They will of course always treat the right more favorably than the left but they aren't ready to hand them the wheel for real yet.
The fact they are having to play catchup with the national discourse is actually probably in our favor.
If they use our language they force their audiences to learn our definitions.
Far from being slander, it benefits us. Communists do not need to convince people, we need to educate people. If people gain the ability to understand these terms and what they refer to then their own analysis of society changes because it becomes informed by the socialist breakdown of class.
Once you become aware of the socialist breakdown of class you inevitably MUST learn how the classes interact and this leads to consciousness of the exploitation by one class of another.
Once this has happened you ask yourself your own class and find where you fit in. Then you wrestle with the moral dilemmas if you're not a member of the proletariat or you wrestle with what a revolution truly is and what "marxists" want for society if you are.
Their use of our language can genuinely only benefit us by creating opportunities for education.
I also think part of the reason they've never used our language is because most of them never knew it themselves until recently.
I also think part of the reason they’ve never used our language is because most of them never knew it themselves until recently.
This probably isn't wrong lol. I only learned the lingo from the old sub and then later from communist twitter and here.
In learning marxism to counter socialists the liberals will either become socialists themselves or come to the realisation that they are immoral shitbags who only care about their class interests. This education in marxism will accelerate their behaviour towards greater exploitation in the case of those who have it in their class interests or have some element of benefits from pandering to the interests of the bourgeoisie (bourgeoise media are sort of a sub-class unto themselves).
The proletarian liberals will accidentally become marxists because they will gain an education in what is in their class interests.
Liberals won't realise this until it's too late because they are idealists. They think it's about convincing people rather than class interests so they see no problem with providing some education but with a negative spin. Every little part of that education will hurt them considerably.
twitter isn't real life, but it is the life of media demons, so whether they like it or not, the online left comes to live in their head "rent free" as the kids say.
Va*sh is useful to the media, which is why he will continue to receive attention and funding.
so, the surprising reason Biden has low popularity is NOT that Biden is unpopular, but because the ding dang dumb kids today--who the Biden team have repeatedly told to go fuck themselves and that they don't matter--do, as it turns out, matter and are not getting their big political think thoughts from CNN?
well, no shit. another riddle solved.
if you want some laughs, look this clown up. he's an obama hagiographer and poli sci prof at some private fancylad kid-toucher catholic "university" that has less undergrads than the nearby prison had inmates.
this genre of articles seems handcrafted to ensure CNN's audience feels special and never listens to anyone under 45 about what the fuck is going on.
The US has spent the last thirty years either pretending Democrats are "left" or pretending leftists didn't exist. We probably should have taken better advantage of that.
Honest question: How could we have taken better advantage of it? While the US spent years publicly pretending we didn't exist, feds have been busy the whole time infiltrating, dismantling, and murdering leftists.
I think leftists could have done more organizing while government agents were focused elsewhere
Even though powerful Republicans believe in the neo-Nazi “great replacement theory,” voter suppression and racist gerrymandering are prevalent, and many states are passing legislative assaults on women’s rights and LGBTQ rights
Yes and who’s standing by passively while they do that?
I guess the author just ignored all the memes about laser eyes trans flag stalin or whatever
Some day a writer will do an expose on this site and we will all have a good laugh as we see bmf posts on the news or a blurred ppb. Then we'll have to furiously scrub our accounts so no one can trace us back.
I know people that freak out when I suggest punching a cop, I would be in serious social jeopardy if what I said on this site was shown IRL(although most of my close friends would stay). This is not even getting into if local pigs or employers could trace this to me.
i love that this is just 1500 words of this guy getting mad at people on twitter. No data, just being mad at twitter people.
yeah it's like matt :matt-jokerfied: keeps saying: these articles are basically just written for bosses to read and agree with. They can't change anything because it's just directed at a disorganized group.
